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Title: The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Author: Cora Lenore Williams
Release Date: April 13, 2004 [EBook #12010]
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOURTH DIMENSIONAL REACHES ***
Produced by David A. Schwan
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition
San Francisco, 1915
By Cora Lenore Williams, M. S.
Author of "As If" and Essays on "Involution"
Paul Elder and Company
Publisher - San Francisco
Copyright, 1915
By Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco
To My Father and Mother
Contents
Lines on "Fourth-Dimensional Insight" by Ormeida Curtis Harrison.
(Tissue Facing Frontispiece.)
A Fourteenth Century Legend
Essay on the Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition. By Cora
Lenore Williams:
General Status of the Fourth-Dimensional Theory
Fourth-Dimensional Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition
Bibliography: Books and Poems having Fourth-Dimensional Insight
Illustrations
An Unborn Space. The Court of Four Seasons. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington (Frontispiece)
A Structure Brave. Palace of Fine Arts. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington
A Building Inside Out. The Court of Ages. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington
A Four-Dimensional Cover Design. By Julia Manchester Mackie. (Cover.)
Time is, and all the detail of the world confounds
The plastic mind. With multitude of shapes and sounds
Do the swift elements of thought contend
To form a whole which life may comprehend.
Only to those of high intent
Is life revealed, and quick dreams sent -
Half glimpsed truths omnipotent.
Out of the silence of an unborn space
A spirit moves, and thought comes face to face
With the immutable, and time is past,
And the spent soul, done, meets truth at last.
Chance, fate, occasion, circumstance,
In interfused radiance
Are lost. Past, present, future, all combined
In one sure instanta
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